Kuri
2015 - 2018, 4 years old
A $700 wheeled home robot with expressive eyes and a built-in camera, made by a Bosch-backed startup to roam the house and film candid moments.
Mayfield Robotics was incubated inside Bosch's startup program and showed Kuri at CES 2016, a 700-dollar home robot with animated eyes, mapping, and a camera meant to capture candid family video. It began shipping to pre-order customers in late 2017, into the same indifference that was about to kill Jibo and Anki. In July 2018 Mayfield stopped production, saying it had found no business fit within Bosch to scale the company, and wound the whole operation down by the end of October. Backers were refunded and allowed to keep their robots, which lost features as the cloud services behind them switched off. Kuri was the friendly face of a category buyers admired in videos and declined to purchase.
- Founded
- 2015-02
- Shut down
- 2018-10-31
- Funding raised
- Undisclosed
- Years alive
- 4
- Founders
- Mike Beebe, Kaijen Hsiao, Sarah Osentoski
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